Pounding Quotations

I love writing. It's one of my favorite jobs. Of the things I get to do, I love sitting in a room and coming up with ideas, and I love going home and pounding them out.

For me, honestly, one of the first movies I did I was always pounding coffee, and I crashed so horribly. So I've kind of weaned myself off. You keep getting second and third winds. But for me, I've stopped doing energy drinks or any kind of stimulant. I just kind of go natural.

Feeling pummeled by the outside pounding of tests and standards, a teacher can easily hide and simply turn to the immediacy of the classroom. It is not surprising that many teachers burrow in their rooms with all that they know about their students. There is no place to take the information.

The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany.

My varying pairs of legs can be quite practical or quite impractical, and I don't judge them either way. Some are for getting around a 12-hour day, pounding the pavement, and some are to feel like I can transform my own body into a workable, changing piece of art.

When I walk down the street in New York, I swear to God, the building constructor, the guy pounding cement and what not, will yell, 'Hey, you hockey puck!'

We are pounding our heads on the wall trying to get a solution, ... It's just a little overwhelming.

We started out really good and were just pounding them, going straight down and having some quality passing, and intensity was high, and then we started to slack off, but then the last 15 to 20 minutes of the second half we started checking and working together.

When you've got an early lead like that, you don't want to back off at all. But I think they just kept pounding and kept working, and they got a few breaks, got a few goals, and before you know it, it's a 2-2 game.

When you think about Boston, Harvard and M.I.T. are the brains of the city, and its soul might be Faneuil Hall or the State House or the Old Church. But I think the pulsing, pounding heart of Boston is Fenway Park.

Whether you agree or disagree with him, the president has taken a pounding on perceptions of his honesty.

Whether my house was open or not, the noise was just as bad. ... It was like someone constantly pounding on the house.

When we were released I was sure I could jump right back into ordinary life and that's what I wanted the most, but I'm afraid no such luck. When I can get through an ordinary day without shaking legs and a pounding heart, I think that will be a sign that I can start to tell my story.

When we do our pre-game talk, we talk about certain people not liking pressure. But it seems like none of their players likes pressure. We tried to jump on that, totally, because that got our defense going. And we knew that if we kept pounding them and pounding them ? not just stealing the ball but just getting stops ? that would frustrate them.

We fed off her energy. We tried to keep pounding it to her. They couldn't stop her.

We're expecting a lot of rain and it should be windy. Right now, we're pounding down the dirt. If we keep it good and tight, we'll be all right when it passes.

We knew we were going to have to be patient and keep pounding it in there,

Woodland has a lot of weapons. There is not a better team in the league when it comes to throwing the football. But they are also capable of pounding the ball at you.

We've won (18) games and the fans are there every night pounding on the glass and cheering for us.

We have to get close to 40 shots again and keeping pounding the puck. Fancy passing plays, those things are not going to get it done. We have to keep driving the net and find a way to score goals.

Libby likes to run the veer option game by pounding it with their fullback. Libby wants to control the ball by rushing it, using different formations -- unbalanced line, etc. -- to try and force you to adjust. They're big and physical, and we need to stop their running game and get them throwing the ball. If we do that, we'll be doing the right things defensively.

McFadden, he's got the ability to take it to the house every time he touches it. He's a 4.3 guy. He can really, really move. I was watching Alabama. He took it 70 yards. Alabama was hitting him, hitting him, hitting; next thing you know, he's going 70 yards down the field. They trade a lot of backs so they can keep fresh and keep pounding you.

Only a crazy person wouldn't fear approaching a car with tinted windows during a late-night car stop, or pounding up a flight of stairs to execute a search warrant, or fast-roping from a helicopter down into hostile fire. Real agents, like real people, feel that fear in the pit of their stomachs.

One way or another there are going to be pounding waves on the northeast coast.

My heart was pounding like I was a rookie or something,

My heart started pounding and the adrenalin was pumping. I did the math and I worked out if we get this there is no way we are losing now.

My heart is still pounding out of my chest. With as many injuries as we had, we just had to keep getting players in and out - don't ask me how we did it.

People were expecting the worst and I think the reaction you saw is that it wasn't as Draconian as many had feared. There wasn't any real hard table pounding or anything in the minutes that pointed to a 50-basic point hike at the next meeting.

I was pounding on the window and the female inside was not responding so I broke out the window.

If we have to look at new revenues, so be it. The fact is, higher education in general doesn't have a lot of advocates out there pounding on the table. We have to do a better job. But getting people to get out and advocate and stand up and take some hits and confront maybe some of their friends it's hard to do sometimes.

I don't have anything they don't know about. Mostly it's pounding the strike zone, keeping the ball down and trying to stay out of patterns.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change.... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

I feel like I'm in shape, but the football shape and getting hit and the pounding is different from doing drills and the stuff I've been doing.

Getting beat on the boards seemed to be a very significant part of this game. You have to give them a lot of credit for pounding the glass. It seemed like every time we've played them the last couple of years, they've been much better prepared on the boards than we have. We got beat by a team that did the things they need to do within their scheme in order to win the game tonight.

He was dominating, pounding the strike zone with velocity over 90. But it wasn't so much the velocity but the command, velocity and the delivery.

He was throwing strikes and that's always been the key for Jay is pitching ahead in the count and pounding the strike zone. That's what he did. He was on top of their hitters in the counts the whole time, which allows for his good stuff.

He has a very live personality that very positively impacts a football team. This is a physical game. If you can't watch the way he plays and have admiration for the pounding he absorbs in a football game and appreciate the way he approaches his performance, then you should be playing something else.

He has taken a pounding in there, but people are finding out, he is a lot stronger than what they think he is. He has taken it in stride like a man and is doing the things we need for him to do to win.

He missed it and came back last spring. He's bought into what we're doing. We're pounding it inside to him and he's opening the game up for everybody.

We're pounding on them. We want this thing on the shelf here, as soon as possible.

We took turns pounding away... as hard as we could.

When he's good, he's pounding the strike zone and picking.

He's a big, strong kid who can handle the pounding an inside runner is going to take.

Here's what's up, no bullshit. Jerome came to me and said, 'My heart is pounding and I'm having chest pains'. We're all kind of freaked out back here.

He didn't miss it. Everything was down to Damon. We had been pounding Jeter in all day, so we wanted to go down and away with the splitter. Instead, it was up - exactly the opposite of where we wanted it.

He keeps his balance. I can't count how many times you think, 'He's down, they got him' and he's coming out the back end, going down the field with speed. You need 11 guys coming to the ball making sure he's down. Keep pounding and pounding him and make sure he's on the ground.

He knew Aaron and Malik Hairston were going to come out hard tonight because we kind of shut them down the last time. They were getting it down lot and pounding it, and they were making their 3-point shots. So it was kind of hard for us to get stops. Their whole team played together tonight.

Just within the few seconds we had arrived and carried Taylor to the car, he had deteriorated rapidly. By the time we had arrived at the hospital, Taylor had completely lost his vision and was choking and unable to breathe on his own. I was pounding on his chest to help keep him breathing.

I think the Mavericks -- our team -- we've kind of forgotten who we are as basketball team and what made us successful. It wasn't shots on the offense. It wasn't holding the ball. We've kind of looked like some of our old teams with one guy pounding the ball instead of ball movement and player movement. We haven't been physical. Is that because we've been fatigued? I don't know. I know we've been a step slow. I can see that -- mentally and physically. We just need to get back to being who we are, and I think that will give us a better chance to win some of these games.

I think the key for us defensively is how we do standing the physical pounding on their offensive line and the great running back they have in Erroll Wynn,

It is something that has a lot of appeal among the general populace but it needs serious funding. It needs a design for manufacture, and to be installed and trialled. It needs to withstand quite a lot of pounding to work in a road.

I think (Black and Bober) did well, ... But when you get that kind of lead, you want to start pounding the ball... . Most of our passing was play-action. That took a lot of pressure off those guys.

I think that there was a lot of undisclosed money that came into South Dakota, driving a message to paint me as a Washington partisan, which I don't believe that I am, but it was a message that resonated, after pounding it away for a number of weeks.

I think the size thing is a little bit overrated in running backs. Everybody says, 'Well, we need a big back.' Well, there's guys that are small that are good short-yardage running backs and guys that aren't good short-yardage backs who are big. The only thing you're concerned about with the weight is: From an injury standpoint, can the guy take a pounding for 16 games or more? That's what you're really concerned about.

Jamie is really pounding the ball. She's been getting big hits for us all season.

Our bullpen has been great. We've been pounding the strike zone.

Really, that's not our style. Honestly, we just plug along. We run it, run it, run it, run it then a pass or two. I think the pounding over and over and over wears them down, and soon we're able to break a few big plays.

My message is: Never, never give up on environmental issues. Keep pounding at the door.

It felt like someone was pounding on the window. But it was the aftermath that was shocking.

I'm hoping to beat Boris because I don't know if I can beat anyone who knows what they're doing, ... Boris and I are both a little bit out of our element. I figure we'll be in the middle somewhere pounding on each other.

We have our battles. You'll be laying down watching TV and all the sudden someone's on top of you pounding you. I usually win. I have the size on him.

We do what we do best. We pressed and wore 'em down and started pounding the ball inside.

We played horrible (in the first half) and we didn't want a repeat of last year. Once we got that lead, we just kept pounding and pounding. We weren't going to let up tonight. It was a huge confidence-booster.

We have to start strong and finish strong. Once you get on top of somebody, you have to keep pounding them with what you've been doing.

We ended up shooting a lot of threes, especially in the second and third quarter, but I told the team, 'We can't rely on the 3-point shot. I felt like if we just keep pounding and pounding and pounding, we'd be all right.

We had never had that this year. We were doing some things (Saturday) we hadn't done. We were getting off the field as a defense on third down. We were driving and pounding the ball on offense. We really had a lot of confidence in what we were doing.

We had all our guys run well. It was the best I've seen the line all year. They just kept pounding and pounding.

We wanted to make sure that the soundtrack is as powerful as the boxers' punches. Each song gets your heart pounding and makes you want to move faster, dig deeper and punch harder.

We have a mandate to return the hurricane protection system to pre-Katrina levels by June 1. The folks out there are really working like crazy. We've got folks pounding steel 24 hours a day.

We came out and shot well early, but I felt like we rushed a lot of shots in the second half, and they started pounding it in to Harper. Harper can dominate.

We found a sledgehammer, and for a long time, we took turns pounding away.

The president has spent seven months pounding away on the fact Social Security needs to be fixed,

We know it's coming. We'll just have to keep pounding our heads against the wall and get through. An offense is giving something up to do it, and that's OK; we like the way our defense is playing.

Today was the first time in my life, the last two innings, my heart was pounding like crazy. I was so excited. So many people were waiting for this moment.

Whenever I saw two people talking, I would tell myself that they were talking about me. When I went to bed at nights, I could feel the blood pounding in my head and little voices telling me that I am going die in shame.

We kept pounding it in to her and they couldn't stop her. Our energy was up from the tip and we intimidated our opponent. We kept it going all game.

We kept pounding at them and we couldn't get it in. They capitalized at the right time.

We always pound it inside when we go on the road. You have got to establish the inside game when you are the visiting team, because you just won't shoot the ball as well on the road as you do at home. Until someone takes away our inside game, we're going to keep pounding it.

We've just had trouble hitting the ball. Early in the season we were just pounding the ball.

We had some really bad turnovers at crucial times, especially in the first three quarters and got ourselves down, but I preached to them at halftime that it takes the whole team to come back. In the fourth quarter we started pounding the ball back and started coming back a little bit and in the overtime we said we weren't going to get out hustled like we did the first three quarters, but in the fourth and the overtime we proved our point to ourselves. It was a total team effort tonight.

We've been pounding this message hard, challenging each of them to come to us with something that has never been done before,

We had to have the mind set that we were going to win. We kept pounding and executing down the stretch, believing things would go our way.

We had to come out pounding the ball, ... Our offensive line did a great job. Every time I got the ball, they had a great surge. They deserve all the credit.

This was sort of like our Cinderella, to come through here 1-0 and hold them after the pounding they've been giving to people. But you give credit. We got the pitches, and we made the plays defensively.

We got a pretty good pounding on the beach, so that remains to be seen with erosion. But the tide was about a foot and a half above normal, and earlier we were told it could be two to four feet.

We just kept pounding the ball. We knew we could run. Our line surged in the second half.

We just kept pounding it and pounding it inside. We took advantage of their size and took it to the basket. Everything was just clicking.

Tony is our go-to guy. He's a very physical player who makes our running game meaningful. It's a big difference in our success when he is pounding hard inside.

We figured if we just kept pounding and pounding them with the number of players they had we'd wear them out,

We're going to try to be basic in our running game. We have four good runners. So we'll keep fresh legs in there and keep pounding with quick attacks.

Very tough, especially when you look on the opponent's side and you don't see Peyton (Manning) touching the ground. How much pounding can a guy take?

We did a good job of not chasing anything when he wasn't throwing strikes. You saw him out there throwing strikes and pounding the zone. He's as good as there is at that age. He's going to be dominant. You don't see many arms like that come around very often.

At about 1 p.m., I got a call and they told me my item was up next. The price was at $2,000 before you could blink an eye. My heart started pounding and I thought I'd better stop.

During the spring, it's about taking those strides to get you ready for the season, and I'm just going to focus on pounding the ball down. They made some good contact with two strikes, and that was probably the biggest thing for me - trying to put them away with two strikes was a little tough tonight.

Few companies are pounding the table and saying things are terrific so there's not the wild enthusiasm you would expect with a good earnings season,

It would have been nice to get him 200 yards today, but we just didn't get the opportunities to keep pounding it with him. When we did start running it, (the Jets) scored that touchdown late and it was right back to pass.

It was a perfect target; Tony Ridder has known this for years and that's why he was pounding for the need to improve profitability. His worst nightmare came true.

The team the last couple years as taken a pounding emotionally,

Pounding the pavement, standing up long hours at events, the kinds of things you have to do in a campaign ... It's definitely disappointing and frustrating. But we'll live to fight another day.

Our defense has done a great job the last couple of games. I think that has been a big difference from our play in the beginning of the season. That allowed us to go in and get some good buckets tonight, so we just kept pounding them in.